High-Speed networks, including gigabit networks, form the focus of this exciting new text by best-selling author William Stallings. Intended for both professional and academic audiences, this book provides an up-to-date survey of developments in the design of intranets based on the Internet Protocol (IP) and the entire TCP/IP protocol suite, and ATM networks. Specifically, how the network designer tackles the issues of supporting multimedia and real-time traffic, the need to control traffic, and how to provide different levels of Quality of Service (QOS) to different applications.